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Before starting I tried searching but I couldn't find anything. Frequently I come across comments about people wanting this feature. Here is the proof. [0] >

Before starting I tried searching but I couldn't find anything. Frequently I come across comments about people wanting this feature. Here is the proof. [0] > yes please! i need a "comment to follow" functionality on HN So I built it. I built this for one user named swyx. I'm going to email him now letting him know I built it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402785 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402785

mindcrime 6mo ago
There have definitely been a few over the years, especially if you include scenarios beyond just "get notified for replies". Some have been webapps, some have been browser plugins, etc. Here's some discussion of one recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172406 And some more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814917 And HNChat, which went a little further: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724 That said, don't take this as criticism. It's clearly something that some HN users want. If you can make it stick, more power to you!
vunderba 6mo ago
There have been quite a few of them over the years in varying degrees of complexity. I think the most well-known one is probably HN Replies. A simple Github search returns the following results. HN Notifier https://github.com/meanands/hn-notifier https://github.com/meanands/hn-notifier Hacker New Telegram Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot HN Reply Notifier https://github.com/lotsofnoise/hn-reply-notifier https://github.com/lotsofnoise/hn-reply-notifier And there have been Show HNs on them as well. Show HN: I built an open-source notification inbox widget for Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373123 Show HN: HN Reader – Track your conversations across Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240221 I (and probably a lot of other HN users) built my own bespoke HN suite that notifies me on replies, stories that I might be interested in, etc. It just sits quietly on a VPS and sends messages to me over Signal. Never open-sourced it because the code is a dire abomination. Yours is probably the first Chrome side-panel variation that I've seen though.
- Gys 6mo ago
  I use https://hnreplies.com https://hnreplies.com for over 10 years now? It is one of these services that just work. Thank you, Dan Grossman!
xrd 6mo ago
Funny, I built something similar and I think I told swyx about it as well! https://plzat.me/ https://plzat.me/ Swyx is certainly a taste maker! Mine is just to track conversations. You can follow a thread and get notified when it is updated. It used to work on Firefox Mobile but some how an automatic android update disabled my extension and I have not spent the time to fix it.

mindcrime 6mo ago

There have definitely been a few over the years, especially if you include scenarios beyond just "get notified for replies". Some have been webapps, some have been browser plugins, etc. Here's some discussion of one recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172406 And some more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814917 And HNChat, which went a little further: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724 That said, don't take this as criticism. It's clearly something that some HN users want. If you can make it stick, more power to you!

vunderba 6mo ago

There have been quite a few of them over the years in varying degrees of complexity. I think the most well-known one is probably HN Replies. A simple Github search returns the following results. HN Notifier https://github.com/meanands/hn-notifier https://github.com/meanands/hn-notifier Hacker New Telegram Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot HN Reply Notifier https://github.com/lotsofnoise/hn-reply-notifier https://github.com/lotsofnoise/hn-reply-notifier And there have been Show HNs on them as well. Show HN: I built an open-source notification inbox widget for Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373123 Show HN: HN Reader – Track your conversations across Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240221 I (and probably a lot of other HN users) built my own bespoke HN suite that notifies me on replies, stories that I might be interested in, etc. It just sits quietly on a VPS and sends messages to me over Signal. Never open-sourced it because the code is a dire abomination. Yours is probably the first Chrome side-panel variation that I've seen though.

Gys 6mo ago
I use https://hnreplies.com https://hnreplies.com for over 10 years now? It is one of these services that just work. Thank you, Dan Grossman!

xrd 6mo ago

Funny, I built something similar and I think I told swyx about it as well! https://plzat.me/ https://plzat.me/ Swyx is certainly a taste maker! Mine is just to track conversations. You can follow a thread and get notified when it is updated. It used to work on Firefox Mobile but some how an automatic android update disabled my extension and I have not spent the time to fix it.